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Monday, December 8, 2025

The moviemaking industry known as Nollywood is based in what country that is the most populous of its continent?The venue that hosted a high-profile international conference last month caught fire—a pretty on-the-nose metaphor, considering that the summit was about what subject?What vice president to Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1950s lost the presidential election in 1960 and then a race for California governor in 1962, before finally winning the White House in 1968?

Answers:

Nigeria. Toluse Olorunnipa reminisces on a childhood spent waiting for cousins in Nigeria to mail him physical media from the industry. Now anyone can catch Nollywood fare on streamers, where movie budgets have grown and the storytelling is as fantastical as ever. Read more.Climate change. Peter Brannen argues that such a fiery fate might await the whole world if society resigns itself to the “climate realism” argument that says a 3-degree rise should be the new do-not-pass line—because, realistically, do-not-pass lines often get passed. Read more.Richard Nixon. Idrees Kahloon observes that conservatives are starting to talk about the faction’s post–Donald Trump future, including at least one commentator who says that the current veep, J. D. Vance, should look to how Nixon united a fractious right (even though he lost). Read more.

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